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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Facilities and Costs: Discussion (29 Aug 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: ...good to see Ms Moira Leydon, assistant general secretary of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland, ASTI, once again. Mr. David Duffy, education and research officer of the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, is also welcome back to the committee. We also have with us Mr. Paul Hogan, who is the senior adviser for the forward planning section of the Department of Housing, Planning and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Facilities and Costs: Discussion (29 Aug 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: ...for her presentation. It is always good to get practical suggestions that we can bring forward. I now invite Mr. David Duffy, education and research officer with the Teachers' Union of Ireland, TUI, to make his submission.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Facilities and Costs: Discussion (29 Aug 2018)
...Expenditure and Reform are that post-primary enrolments are expected to rise by 12.5% between 2018 and 2024. This creates obvious issues regarding the timely provision of school buildings. The TUI believes that free education should mean genuinely free education. Barnardos has estimated that genuinely free post-primary education would only cost €127 million. A useful first step...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Facilities and Costs: Discussion (29 Aug 2018)
Mr. David Duffy: The TUI recommends that genuinely free education should be achieved through the implementation of revised tax measures. Significant investment is required for both the building of new schools and the modernisation and expansion of existing schools. Curricular needs and changes to curriculum must be taken into account. Building cost inflation must be taken into account,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Facilities and Costs: Discussion (29 Aug 2018)
...learning and whereby 30% of the marks in the junior cycle examination would come from practical, experimental laboratory work. An extraordinary phenomenon developed whereby the ASTI and the TUI kicked up a stink about this because we said we simply did not have the laboratories to move from the text-based approach to the more active learning approach. The Department conducted an audit of...